I thought it would be fun to post the top food recipes of 2008. Yep these are the best of the best. I love searching for the newest and greatest free recipes online and there are so many great sites and blogs to give just that.
Recipezaar is probably the #1 recipe website by my standards. As a member you get to enjoy their cool newsletters highlighting featured chefs and free recipes each week.
I have found so many tricks and tips and simple recipes from their website. I recommend browsing their website, you won’t be disappointed.
Today’s newsletter listed the top 100 recipes of 2008. WOW!! There are some great copycat recipes I have got to try, like KFC’s coleslaw (the only kind I like) and Hooters Buffalo Wings (sorry honey, now I can make them right at home) and of course Cracker Barrels Hash Browns Casserole (YUMMY)!!
Here is the top 25 food recipes and a link to the entire list.
1) Better Than Olive Garden Alfredo Sauce
2) P. F. Chang’s Chicken Lettuce Wraps
3) Bourbon Chicken
4) Puppy Chow or Monkey Munch
5) Best Ever Banana Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
6) To Die for Crock Pot Roast
7) Soft Snickerdoodle Cookies
8) Fannie Farmer’s Classic Baked Macaroni and Cheese
9) Jo Mama’s World Famous Spaghetti
10) Beer Bread
11) The Best Chili You Will Ever Taste
12) Whole Chicken Crock Pot Recipe
13) Crock Pot Chicken W/ Black Beans and Cream Cheese…yum!
14) Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta
15) Mexican Ceviche
16) P. F. Chang’s Mongolian Beef
17) Cracker Barrel’s Hash Browns Casserole – Copycat
18) Ww 0 Point Weight Watchers Cabbage Soup
19) Peach Cobbler
20) Amazing Chicken Tortilla Soup!
21) Sesame Chicken
22) Delicious Chicken Pot Pie
23) KFC Coleslaw
24) Hooters Buffalo Wings
25) Best Grape Salad
Oh so many good food recipes to chose from, I’m like a kid in a candy store. Enjoy and Happy Cooking – Machelle
Here is the complete article link: Recipezaar’s Top 100 Recipes of 2008
Here are the top 5 free recipes searched on Cheap Meals For Your Family:
Easy Meatloaf Recipe
Goulash Recipe
Crock Pot Pot Roast
Chicken Recipes
Cheap Meals Week Of Recipes
I have spent the last two days rummaging through my cupboards and racking my brain for some simple and
cheap gifts for the kids to give to their teachers, bus drivers and for neighbors from the family.
Our Holiday budget of course is dry so my only option was to get creative with what I had on hand and what little bit I could purchase.
I was actually impressed, I managed to come up with some great gifts that cost nothing or next to nothing to give.
If you are like me and freaking out over last minute gift ideas here are a few cheap ways to spread some Holiday cheer:
- Big Hershey’s Candy Bar – Hershey bars only cost $1 and they have many varieties. Wrap some yarn or ribbon around the candy bar, tie in a bow and attach a gift tag. (we gave these to teachers and my teenagers close friends at school)
- Candy Gift Sack – Put 1 Candy Cane and 4 or 5 pieces of candy in a cello bag or sandwich bag add some ribbon or yarn and a gift tag. (I actually couldn’t find any Christmas cello bags but I found these sandwich and craft baggies in the Ziploc section at Wal-Mart. The baggies are made by Hefty and cost me $1.25 for 150 sacks and ties.) (we gave these as a gift to each student in my kids classrooms)
- Hot Cocoa Gift Sack – Put 1 envelope Hot Cocoa, 1 candy cane and 2-3 hot cocoa Hershey Kisses in a cello bag or sandwich bag add some ribbon or yarn and a gift tag. (we gave these to the bus drivers and classroom aides)
- Popcorn Gift Sack – Fill a cello bag or sandwich bag with microwave popcorn add some ribbon or yarn and a gift tag. (we give these out to neighbors and the neighborhood friends my kids play with)
- Cookie Plate – I’m out of time and cannot bake cookies so I purchased a tube of chocolate chip cookie dough for $2.50, baked them and place 5 or 6 cookies on a paper plate, covered it with some Christmas colored Cling wrap and added a Christmas bow to the top. (we give these out to family and friends that stop by)
As you can see most everything I have given was right from my cupboard. I love to give gifts but just don’t have the money to purchase much. But with some creativity we were able to give gifts to all our friends and family without spending a bundle. Happy Gift Giving and Happy Holidays! -Machelle
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